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=== 1673 Most Eminent Planters List === | === 1673 Most Eminent Planters List === | ||
The original list is kept in Colonial Papers, Vol. XXX, Nos. 42, 42 I., II., III. at the [[England The National Archives|National Archives]], Kew, England. Abstracts have been published: | The original list is kept in Colonial Papers, Vol. XXX, Nos. 42, 42 I., II., III. at the [[England The National Archives|UK National Archives]], Kew, England. Abstracts have been published: | ||
*Sainsbury, W. Noel, ed. ''Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, Volume 7, 1669-1674''. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1889. Digital version at [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=765 British History Online]. [Barbados entries appear on pages 496 and 497, entry 1101.] | *Sainsbury, W. Noel, ed. ''Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, Volume 7, 1669-1674''. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1889. Digital version at [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=765 British History Online]. [Barbados entries appear on pages 496 and 497, entry 1101.] | ||
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=== 1679 Inhabitants and 1680 Census === | === 1679 Inhabitants and 1680 Census === | ||
The original population listing of Barbados (1679-1680) is held by the UK National Archives (reference CO 1/44, no 47 i-xxii); a copy is available | The original population listing of Barbados (1679-1680) is held by the [[England The National Archives|UK National Archives]] (reference CO 1/44, no 47 i-xxii); a copy is available at the [[Barbados Archives and Libraries|Barbados Department of Archives]]. The collection has been microfilmed: {{FHL|35200|item}} 1162149 Item 1 and published: | ||
*Hotten, John Camden. ''The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years; Apprentices; Children Stolen; Maidens Pressed; and Others Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700, with Their Ages, the Localities Where They Formerly Lived in the Mother Country, the Names of the Ships in which They Embarked, and Other Interesting Particulars; from MSS. Preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England''. London: the author, 1874. Digital versions at [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2065 Ancestry] ($); [http://books.google.com/books?id=B414AAAAMAAJ Google Books] and [http://www.archive.org/details/originallistsofp00hottuoft Internet Archive]; 1983 reprint: {{FHL|1055287|item}} 973 W2hot 1983 [Barbados census appears on pages 438-464.] | *Hotten, John Camden. ''The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years; Apprentices; Children Stolen; Maidens Pressed; and Others Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700, with Their Ages, the Localities Where They Formerly Lived in the Mother Country, the Names of the Ships in which They Embarked, and Other Interesting Particulars; from MSS. Preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England''. London: the author, 1874. Digital versions at [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2065 Ancestry] ($); [http://books.google.com/books?id=B414AAAAMAAJ Google Books] and [http://www.archive.org/details/originallistsofp00hottuoft Internet Archive]; 1983 reprint: {{FHL|1055287|item}} 973 W2hot 1983 [Barbados census appears on pages 438-464.] | ||
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=== 1715 Census === | === 1715 Census === | ||
The original 1715 Census of Barbados is held at the UK National Archives (reference CO 28/16, no 2); a copy is available | The original 1715 Census of Barbados is held at the [[England The National Archives|UK National Archives]] (reference CO 28/16, no 2); a copy is available at the [[Barbados Archives and Libraries|Barbados Department of Archives]]. The collection has been microfilmed {{FHL|35324|item}} 1162149 Item 2 and 1162150, and published twice: | ||
*Kent, David L. ''Barbados and America''. Arlington, Va.: C.M. Kent, 1980. {{FHL|316574|item}} 972.981 X2b | *Kent, David L. ''Barbados and America''. Arlington, Va.: C.M. Kent, 1980. {{FHL|316574|item}} 972.981 X2b | ||
*St. Hill, A. "A Census of the Island of Barbados, West Indies: With the Names and Ages of All the White Inhabitants of the Islands Arranged Under Their Several Parishes: Taken in the Months of October and November, Anno Domini 1715," ''Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society'', Vol. 4, No. 2; Vol. 4, No. 3. {{FHL|268826|item}} 972.981 X2ba | *St. Hill, A. "A Census of the Island of Barbados, West Indies: With the Names and Ages of All the White Inhabitants of the Islands Arranged Under Their Several Parishes: Taken in the Months of October and November, Anno Domini 1715," ''Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society'', Vol. 4, No. 2; Vol. 4, No. 3. {{FHL|268826|item}} 972.981 X2ba | ||
=== Slave registers (1817-1834) === | === Slave registers (1817-1834) === | ||
Not strictly censuses the slave registers list all slave holders and enslaved people in Barbados. The registers were compiled in 1817, 1820, 1823, 1826, 1829, 1831 and 1834. The registers for 1817, 1820 and 1834 list all slave holders and enslaved people the other registers only list changed in the slave population such as births, deaths, purchases, sales and manumissions. | Not strictly censuses the slave registers list all slave holders and enslaved people in Barbados. The registers were compiled in 1817, 1820, 1823, 1826, 1829, 1831 and 1834. The registers for 1817, 1820 and 1834 list all slave holders and enslaved people the other registers only list changed in the slave population such as births, deaths, purchases, sales and manumissions <ref>Guy Grannum, ''Tracing Your West Indian Ancestors'' (PRO Publications, 2002)</ref>. The original compiled in Barbados is not known to survive but the duplicate set is held by the [[England The National Archives|UK National Archives]] in the series T 71<ref>For more information on the slave registers see the National Archives' [http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Slave_registers wiki]</ref>; digitised and indexed copy is available on [http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=1129 Ancestry] (free on registration). | ||
=== References === | === References === | ||